The Development of the outline for migrant family research: the case of Lithuania

LTReikšminiai žodžiai: Šeima; Emigracija; Family; Emigration.

ENThe de-bordering of Europe and the development of intra-European mobility is seen as one of the main factors of recent wave of the mass emigration from Lithuania giving rise of the family changes. The article aims to trace the development of the outline for migrant family research by discussing the social, empirical and theoretical premises that has lead the author for further research of families touched by migration through the lens of changes, resources, definitions of the situations and impact management practices. An innovative methodological and theoretical approach to study migrant families is introduced with the focus on pragmatic approach and integrative methodology, combination of theories, methods, and data for the purpose of analytic density. The author theorizes family change and coping with hardships by means of ideas of symbolic interactionism, theoretical constructs of intergenerational solidarity, kin networks, personal networks and conceptions of family practices: doing and displaying family. [Publisher annotation]

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